There is an undisputable gap between the popular perception and rigid legal analysis of genocide. We need to achieve a proper balance between inflation of the concept (calling each and every massacre ‘genocide’) and making the concept practically redundant. Solid scientific analysis and dissemination of the results are key instruments to accomplish this goal. An interdisciplinary encounter between historical and legal disciplines appears to be indispensable. The common denominator of all lectures during this conference is the interplay between historical and legal perspectives, the confrontation between real life experiences and court room realities.

The conference is organized by the Amsterdam Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Peace Palace Library, in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, the Danish Institute for International Studies, the Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Living History Forum Stockholm and the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo.

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